Open Thread (Yesterday?)

Some combination of my ancient computer being a problem while I type on public transit and how I’m using jokes for the date instead of actual dates this week, and I seem to have somehow posted this into the Open Thread for Monday, and I’m not quite sure how to undo it. So I’m reposting it here, as an open thread. Um, sorry to people who really wanted whatever ephemera I’d posted there.

Canada has announced that they have found the remains of one of the two ships from the ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage, by explorer Sir John Franklin. Seems that they are certain, except whether the ship found is either the HMS EREBUS or HMS TERROR.http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/polit.....-1.2760311

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Paying lower than market rate? You mean she isn’t paying at least $15/hour?

Of course raising all of that out-of-state $millions in campaign donations is A-OK because she’s a DUMMOCRETIN and those actions are overlooked when you are a DUMMOCRETIN. It only counts to HA DUMMOCRETINS if you are Scott Walker and a Republican!

The ends always justifies the means right Worf?

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I think a fun ‘running gag’ on open threads would be a goof on Jeff Foxworthy’s, ‘You know you’re a redneck’ jokes. Only it would be a ‘You know you’re a Republican’ series of jokes.

For instance: You know you’re a Republican when you think that global corporations should be free to do whatever they want but Pat Robertson should be able to tell you what you can and can’t do in your own bedroom.

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You know you are a Republican if you spread fear and doom when you really don’t know what the fuck you are talking about. And at the same time can’t fathom that some professional with scientific facts could be right.

Smith County, Mississippi, district attorney Daniel Jones told NBC News that Timothy Jones believed his children were plotting to kill him. The deceased range in age from one to eight years old.http://gawker.com/father-detai.....1632924684 This is horrible. If only there was a means to help him, some way to treat him. Oh yeah, conservatives won’t fund them.

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You might be a conservative if… You’ve tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if we got rid of the minimum wage You’ve ever referred to someone as “my (insert racial or ethnic minority here) friend” You’ve ever tried to prove Jesus was a capitalist and opposed to welfare. You’re a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty. You don’t let your kids watch Sesame Street because you suspect Bert and Ernie of “sexual deviance.” You scream “Dit-dit-ditto” while making love. You argue that you need 300 handguns, in case a bear ever attacks your home. You’ve ever called education a luxury. You’re afraid of the “liberal media.” You’ve ever called the National Endowment for the Arts a bunch of pornographers. You think all artists are gay. You ever told a child that Oscar the Grouch “lives in a trash can because he is lazy and doesn’t want to contribute to society.” You’ve ever urged someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, when they don’t even have shoes.

Douche Bag @17 – I’ll admit I didn’t even read the article, don’t have time, I only read the Title of the Article. Which indicates that Insurance cost to private employers hasn’t gone up.

Wasn’t the fear from Republicans that the implementation of Obamacare would raise rates on private accounts? Well just because the employer mandate hasn’t been implemented, it appears that what has been implemented hasn’t done what every Republican fear monger has said it would do. Are you suggesting that the reason this hasn’t happened yet is because the fears spread by Republicnas was with respect to just the employer mandate.

Now I know you are even dumber then dumb, responding the way you did. Article has nothing to do with the Employee Mandate. Unless your smartness can forecast that the Employee Mandate is what truly is going to raise the cost of healthcare for everyone else. More doom and gloom.

My wife just asked me if Puddy gets paid for his posting. I told her Puddy is too stupid to get paid for this. She responded, “True, he doesn’t act like an operative. He behaves like someone who craves attention.”

The provision only applies to employers who have 50 or more employees, Emanuel said. He estimated that there are 200,000 total employers in the U.S. impacted and that “94 percent already offer health insurance” to employees.

Puddy writes in EBONICS on HA DUMMOCRETINS because Oakland School District promoted it back in the 1990s. When Puddy writes technical manuals, guides and other public publications for Puddy’s job Puddy uses the King’s English. Don’t like it… suck it as they say on WWE!

Sux to be you worf!

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Even when Roger NoBalls IDIOT Wabbit corrects the puffed butt, the stonesless one still disagrees!

So puffed butt, – Why did all those health care letters go out with raised rates for 2014? – Why did Obummer delay the healthcare mandate for employers with over 50 employees until 2015; after the 2014 erections? – Why is Kay Hagan in so much trouble in North Carolina over her “Golly I didn’t know” stoooooooopidity regarding those raised rates letters? – Why is Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor trying to change the debate over his opponent’s military record and not over Pryor’s jack boot goose step yes votes on Obummercare? – Why are you so ignorant of many things puffed butt with no stones in the tea bag?

Stooooooooooopid like the typical DUMMOCRETIN interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel demonstrating low information voters like you puffed butt!!! Butt they will step in fetch it and vote DUMMOCRETIN because they know eventually they can get free or lower cost marijuana or other free things from the government. Just like that Florida voter who claimed Obummer was gonna give her free gas! That was priceless!

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But his stance towards the Taliban has always been softer. In March 2009 he said “There is an uncompromising core of the Taliban. They must be met with force, and they must be defeated. But there are also those who’ve taken up arms because of coercion, or simply for a price. These Afghans must have the option to choose a different course.” In Dec. 2009, he was even more circumspect. While maintaining his pledge to “defeat” al Qaeda, he only said of the Taliban, “We must reverse the Taliban’s momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow the government.” In May 2012, Obama said, “our goal is not to build a country in America’s image, or to eradicate every vestige of the Taliban.”

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“Two men, shocked at what they saw, describe an unarmed teenager with his hands up in the air as he’s gunned down by a police officer. They were contractors doing construction work in Ferguson, Missouri, on the day Michael Brown was shot dead. …

“‘He had his f**n hands up,’ one of the men says in the video. … ‘The cop didn’t say get on the ground. He just kept shooting,’ the man said. … The other contractor told CNN he saw Brown running away from a police car. Brown ‘put his hands up,’ the construction worker said, and ‘the officer was chasing him.’

“The contractor says he saw Wilson fire a shot at Brown while his back was turned. The construction workers said they don’t live in Ferguson and don’t know the Brown family, but their account squares with accounts from several other witnesses ….”

Remember when libtard DUMMOCRETINS charged President GW Bush with “overstating” the case for War in Iraq? Obummer claims he was erected to end wars. So Obummer pulls out prematurely from Iraq over the Pentagon generals objections!

Remember when libtard DUMMOCRETINS charged President GW Bush with “overstating” the threat of terrorism? Remember the monomaniacal freakazoid crazed cretin and other moronic libtards, screamed terraists, terraists? Well we just saw Obummer back track tonight! More troops in Iraq?

This is probably poll driven. Watch how often Obummer talks about this in the future!

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But as the MSNBC host ticked off the guests — including former Clinton aide Sandy Berger, longtime Democratic adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman — she couldn’t help but notice a trend.

“It looks like a review of our guest list here at ‘Andrea Mitchell Reports,’” she said. “Julie, why did the president finally reach out and bring in all of these different voices on foreign policy?”

@57 “Remember when libtard DUMMOCRETINS charged President GW Bush with ‘overstating’ the threat of terrorism?”

As I recall it was the other way around:

“During the transition between administrations, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger arranged several extensive briefings on [terrorism] for Bush’s incoming national security adviser, Condoleeza Rice, and others on the Bush team …. Berger told them that Osama bin Laden was an ‘existential threat’ and told them that he wanted ‘to underscore how important this issue is.’ In another briefing, Richard Clarke … gave them a complete tutorial on the subject. In yet another briefing, CIA officials were brought in to go over all the intelligence available on terrorism. Don Kerrick, a three-star general and outgoing deputy national security adviser … submitted a memo for the new National Security Council warning of the danger of terrorism. … But as Kerrick explained to me, he received no answer to his memo. ‘They didn’t respond,’ he said. ‘They never responded. … They never asked me to do anything. … They didn’t see terrorism as the big megaissue that the Clinton administration saw it as. … The Principals meeting of national security officials took up terrorism only once, after constant pressure from Clarke, on September 4, 2001, and at that meeting … no decision was made.” — Sidney Blumenthal, “The Clinton Wars” (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003), pp. 797-798.

We have something of a community here, but not like in real life…in actual, in person, human interaction, anyone as persistently obnoxious and wrong and abusive would feel all sorts of forms of social shunning. He would eventually take himself away, or the group would behave in ways that precluded his presence.

That, alas, is not possible here.

While there are all sorts of criticism leveled at the rantings of the character ‘puddy’ clearly the person behind the character is getting some form of jollies writing what he writes, and provoking the response he gets. It may be a form of masochism, one his religiosity doesn’t allow him to fulfill in other, um, venues, or one he feels he atones for by hewing concretely to a shrieking right wing agenda while getting off on the abuse. And he gets to do it anonymously, sitting at home in his underwear, or in a latex suit, in a dark room….

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